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The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856. [1] It was modelled after the Mount Auburn Cemetery . [ 1 ] In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office.
Work on the 210-acre (85 ha) Mount Olivet Cemetery site was announced in November 1895; it was planned to be a non-sectarian cemetery on the western slopes of San Bruno Mountain which would be subdivided into sections reserved for fraternal organizations such as the Native Sons of the Golden West, Knights of Pythias, Improved Order of Red Men, and Ancient Order of Foresters.
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Union Pacific funeral trains made almost daily trips from Denver to Mt. Olivet. The trains were met by teams of ponies or horses, hitched to funeral biers, to travel up the long drive into the cemetery proper. It took almost an entire day for a funeral cortege to travel by train to Mt. Olivet and back to Denver.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas. With its first burial in 1907, Mount Olivet is the first perpetual care cemetery in the South . Its 130-acre site is located northeast of downtown Fort Worth at the intersection of North Sylvania Avenue and 28th Street adjacent to the Oakhurst Historic District .
Mount Olivet Cemetery (usually abbreviated and stylized as Mt. Olivet Cemetery) is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.It is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization that is otherwise administered independently from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and any of the various Catholic ...
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in Middletown, New Jersey. Notable interments. Vince Lombardi (1913–1970), National Football League coach [1]
Chapel at Mount Olivet Cemetery. On June 5, 1852, the Council of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia passed a local ordinance that barred the creation of new cemeteries anywhere within Georgetown or the area bounded by Boundary Street (northwest and northeast), 15th Street (east), East Capitol Street, the Anacostia River, the Potomac River, and Rock Creek.